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Turning Into Stone Lyrics
it's just a line
line that i feel
that's splitting me apart
i should belong
ain't it lonely
living all the time
when everybody dies
and then i close my eyes
it's a new day
and i've got new ways
of turning into stone
mister hyde
i'm bringing you to life
and rolling back my eyes
unconscious mind
take me for a ride
destroy the man inside
i should belong
it's just a line
that's splitting me apart
ain't it lonely
living all the time
isn't it lonely
living all the time
(it's a new day and i've got new ways of turning into stone)
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This song is about coping with death, and contemplation of suicide. The "line" refers to the split between life and death, and could even be symbolic of a flatline as one would see on a cardiograph. He feels he "belongs" with his love ones that passed and crossed over to the other side of the "line."
At the drop, the "new ways of turning into stone" is a metaphor for his own gravestone. There are two possibilities for what this implies. Since gravestones have inscriptions it could symbolize new ways of being remembered by those living when he himself joins everyone across the line. The more grim perspective puts it at him finding a way to kill himself. Every day he comes with with "new ways" he could accomplish it. Perhaps it may be both, but I believe it refers to suicide.
What follows gives ratification to the grim perspective that maybe he does in fact want to kill himself by bringing Mister Hyde to life. In the comic, the process that transforms Dr. Calvin Zabo into his Mr. Hyde persona is the ingestion of chemical formula. From the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Edward Hyde is also an evil persona onset from drinking potion. At the end of the novel Dr Jekyll says in a letter that he would become Mr Hyde permanently and he wondered if Hyde will face execution for his crimes or choose to kill himself. The letter ends saying "I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end".
"Ain't it lonely living all the time" gives justification that he is unhappy and depressed. He being Jekyll, the man on the inside; the man he wants destroyed.
The "unconscious mind" is the conduit across the line ("take me for a ride.") The unconscious mind is reached by closing his eyes, or rolling his eyes back.
This is a very sad song. He is still alive, alone, and unhappy, feeling like he should be dead and would be happier that way.
Hmmm - clearly he wrote this about her. He has to tour with her, see her everyday, yet he can't tell her how he feels. If he did, it would split up the duo and they'd both be out of a career. Well...at least great music is coming out of the arrangement.